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Sunday, October 6, 2013

i have written a post about which programming language to use for the implementation of algorithms in machine learning, yet i have came across another scientific computing language while i was searching about recurrence. It's called Julia:

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal processing, and string processing. In addition, the Julia developer community is contributing a number of external packages through Julia’s built-in package manager at a rapid pace. IJulia, a collaboration between the IPython and Julia communities, provides a powerful browser-based graphical notebook interface to Julia.

i'm not sure that i need to use it but it desires to look at it because it is stated in official release that Julia beats all other high-level systems (i.e. everything besides C and Fortran) on all micro-benchmarks.